Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala (1900-1976) was a Sri Lankan paleontologist and zoologist who named several species, both recognized and some that remain unconfirmed.[1][2] He saw a tiger skin in an Egyptian bazaar that he was told was from Sudan, where no known species of tigers are known.[3]
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- ↑ https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_398285
- ↑ Deraniyagala, P. E. P. (1939). "Some fossil animals from Ceylon, Part II". Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 34: 231–239.
- ↑ Deraniyalaga, P. E. P. (1951). "Does the tiger inhabit the Sudan?". Spolia Zeylanica. 26: 159.